WARDOGS Vendors & Wager Vendor Guide: Prices, Discounts, Stakes

WARDOGS has no shop in the usual sense — no item store between matches, no loot to sell. Money moves through a handful of counters, and each one has its own rules. The spawn vendor sells your kit every life from your own cash bank. The Black Market takes gold bars for cosmetics, and its Gold Exchange turns cash into gold one way. Supplies can be sold to other players, with limits Season 2 tightened. And Season 2 announced a new counter: the Wager Vendor, an experimental, optional bet on your own performance. This guide covers what each costs, the discounts that apply, what changed in Season 2 and what is — and isn't — known about the Wager Vendor as of 8 November 2026.

Every counter that takes your money

The spawn vendor

When you spawn you pick a role and buy what you'll carry: a weapon, armour and helmet, role gear, a backpack, a parachute, sometimes a vehicle. The vendor only shows what you've unlocked, and everything is paid from the cash bank that carries between your matches for the whole season. Nothing is refunded: die and the purchase is gone, though the unlock stays and the cash the life earned is already banked. Season 2 added one ownership rule worth knowing if you drive: the inventory of a purchased vehicle is private to the driver's squad by default, so the kit you load into it isn't free for the whole team.

Prices aren't fixed across seasons. BULKHEAD rewrote much of the vendor list for Season 2, and Season 3's notes — promised for the week of 9 November — may do it again.

What Season 2 changed at the vendor

The Season 2 notes moved prices in both directions. The pattern is deliberate: the entry-level kit got cheaper, the power items got dearer.

Most muzzles, grips and foregrips also came down by up to a third — the Birdcage from $900 to $600, the GOL suppressor from $1,800 to $1,450. The biggest rises hit the items that win fights on their own: the Range Finder more than tripled ($400 → $1,450), the Super-45 more than doubled and the armed vehicles went up across the board. BoostPirate's reading: Season 2 pushed players toward cheap kit and objective play, and punished spawning the heaviest kit by habit.

Discounts: when the vendor is cheaper

• The comeback discount. Any team at least 40 points behind second place gets 20% off at vendors (Season 2 notes). On a losing team, a $7,900 armoured kit costs $6,320.
• Seeding servers. The notes say seeding servers get their rewards and vendor discount once the match begins — not while the server fills.
• New Recruit (unconfirmed). Season 1 halved vendor prices below Wardog level 9. The Season 2 notes don't mention it — check your own vendor before counting on it.
• No other sales. BULKHEAD hasn't announced vendor sales or bundles for cash; gold bars can't be bought with real money.

One related Season 2 rule: once a team leads by more than 10 points you can't switch teams again for 15 minutes after joining, and switchers see an obscured map and can't use the spawn vehicle until they reach the zone — so hopping to the losing side for the discount isn't free either.

Selling supplies

You can't sell kit back, but supplies are a market of their own: players buy from supply crates, and the crate's owner gets paid. Season 1 players farmed that, so Season 2 put limits on it. Selling from a supply crate now has diminishing returns per buyer, until a sale only breaks even with no profit and no XP; selling to an enemy pays nothing; destroying an empty enemy crate pays half. Delivery is where logistics money comes from now: $1,250 and 400 XP for a pallet deployed in the zone, $250 / $500 for small and large crates, plus streak bonuses — +$250 per consecutive pallet and +$100 per crate, up to ten. The cash farming guide turns those into loops.

The Black Market, Gold Market and Gold Exchange

The Black Market is the only counter that takes gold. From the main menu, Black Market → Gold Market sells cosmetics for gold bars, and the Gold Exchange next to it converts cash into gold bars — one way, at a rate that resets every day at 00:00 UTC. Season 2 put the Gold Market behind Wardog level 35 and a $150,000 unlock, added 8 camos and removed the Black & Gold AK:

BULKHEAD didn't publish the prices in bars. Gold bars and the cosmetics they buy carry over every wipe, and at the end of a season leftover cash converts to gold automatically — CEO Joe Brammer confirmed on 27 October that this happens even without the Gold Market unlock. The rate has no published formula and has swung widely from day to day in both seasons, so check the panel before you convert. The full picture is in the Gold Exchange explained.

The Wager Vendor: how it works

BULKHEAD introduced the Wager Vendor in its Season 02 Preview (9 October) as an experimental, optional vendor. Instead of buying an item, you buy a bet on yourself:

1. PickChoose objectives

   Examples BULKHEAD gave: hot-zone kills and player deliveries. Stacking more objectives lengthens the odds and raises the potential payout.

2. CommitSet your deaths

   You decide how many deaths you're willing to spend on the wager.

3. StakePut cash on it

   The stake comes from your bank.

4. PlayTrack it live

   A tracker above the minimap shows your progress until you meet the objectives or run out of deaths.

Wager Vendor: status and the risk

The Season 2 patch notes (14 October) said the Wager Vendor would not be available at launch, would open later in Season 2 and was meant to come and go; the Preview added that BULKHEAD may remove it mid-season if it proves too exploitable. As of 8 November 2026 BULKHEAD hadn't published a Steam post announcing it live, an odds table or payout figures — so check the in-game vendors, and look for it in the Season 3 notes. If you do find it open, BoostPirate's advice is to treat it as a side bet on top of a life that already pays:

Vendor habits that save a season's cash

• Price your kit before you spawn. If a life won't earn it back, drop a tier — the loadout planner does the sum.
• Buy role tools before guns. The Medical Bag, hammer and Range Finder earn every life; a dearer rifle doesn't.
• Use the comeback discount. On a team 40+ behind, buy the armour you'd normally skip.
• Convert spare cash on a good day. The Gold Exchange rate swings daily and the season-end conversion rate is never shown.
• Recheck prices on 12 November. Season 3 resets the bank and may reprice the vendor.